The Black Ambition Prize competition provides a platform for Black and Hispanic founders across the nation to access growth capital, coaching, and a curated community of innovators and mentors. Eligible applicants consist of Black and Hispanic innovators building early-stage ventures across five distinct categories: 1) Consumer Products and Services, 2) Healthcare, 3) Media and Entertainment,

Spencer Foundation’s Large Research Grants on Education is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, method, or location. The program aims to support rigorous, intellectually ambitious, and technically sound research that is relevant to the most pressing questions and compelling opportunities in

In 2024, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research’s Global Initiatives Grant helps support innovative projects that meet a need not already addressed by the Foundation’s other programs and that benefit the discipline of anthropology by creating the conditions for anthropologists to do better work. This year, the Foundation is promoting Paleoanthropology of East Africa and will

Gerda Henkel Stiftung’s Forced Migration program aims to support internationally oriented, multidimensional research projects on forced migration that address questions that link theoretical core research with concepts vital to social, humanitarian, and political praxis. Proposals that engage in comparisons across regions and time periods, as well as those that incorporate intersectional perspectives and issues, are

William T. Grant Foundation’s Research Grants on Reducing Inequality and Improving the Use of Research Evidence are offered for research studies in two areas: 1) Build, test, or increase understanding of programs, policies, and practices that aim to reduce inequality in the academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes of young people (grants range from $100K-$600K

Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research’s Post-PhD Research Grant Program funds individual research projects undertaken by doctorates in anthropology or a closely related field. The program’s goal is to support vibrant and significant work that furthers our understanding of what it means to be human. There is no preference for any methodology, research location, topic, or

RRF Foundation for Aging identifies interventions, policies, and practices to improve the well-being of older adults and/or their caregivers. It prioritizes four main areas within their grantmaking programs: Caregiving, Housing, Economic Security in Later Life, and Social and Intergenerational Connectedness within the following grant programs: Advocacy, Direct Service, Professional Education and Training, and Research. OFR

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)/Henry Luce Foundation’s Collaborative Grant in China Studies will support the design and pilot of activities that solve specific, pressing challenges in the field of China Studies (humanities or interpretive social sciences) over a 12- to 18-month period. The collaborative grant will serve to test and refine promising solutions; to

Donaghue Foundation: Another Look Grant Program provides funding for health-related research that has the near-term potential to improve health, well-being, and the quality and equity of care in long term care facilities, for adults who are 65 year or older and are long-term residents in nursing homes, assisted living, and other congregate care facilities. There

Spencer Foundation’s Small Research Grants on Education support education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived, inside and outside of schools, including internationally. This program is “field-initiated” in that proposal submissions are not in response to a specific request for a particular research topic, discipline, design, or method. The program